Jake Schmidt
@thejakeschmidt.bsky.social
Just some guy. Housing policy, bikes, mass transit, New York City, local politics, finance, software engineering, not necessarily in that order.
Reposted by Jake Schmidt
Look at these dummies in their matching sweatshirts
December 27, 2023 at 1:45 AM
Look at these dummies in their matching sweatshirts
Why is this app not even giving me push notifications?
July 2, 2023 at 10:53 PM
Why is this app not even giving me push notifications?
Cross-instance DMs and circles aren't coming.
hey new users, Bluesky is a *public* social network
please read about data privacy and more in our User FAQ to help you get oriented! even though we require an invite code to create an account, you should treat any posts here as if it's a public blog
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq
please read about data privacy and more in our User FAQ to help you get oriented! even though we require an invite code to create an account, you should treat any posts here as if it's a public blog
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq
July 2, 2023 at 1:07 AM
Cross-instance DMs and circles aren't coming.
SAN FRANCISCO, 1849
EXT. DAY, MUSK'S SHOVEL EMPORIUM
ELON MUSK: These gold miners are buying up all of my shovels, and more arrive on the train every day! What to do? All I have left in the world is this pile of wooden sticks, a hundred steel ingots, and a standing order with the blacksmith!
EXT. DAY, MUSK'S SHOVEL EMPORIUM
ELON MUSK: These gold miners are buying up all of my shovels, and more arrive on the train every day! What to do? All I have left in the world is this pile of wooden sticks, a hundred steel ingots, and a standing order with the blacksmith!
July 1, 2023 at 11:21 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, 1849
EXT. DAY, MUSK'S SHOVEL EMPORIUM
ELON MUSK: These gold miners are buying up all of my shovels, and more arrive on the train every day! What to do? All I have left in the world is this pile of wooden sticks, a hundred steel ingots, and a standing order with the blacksmith!
EXT. DAY, MUSK'S SHOVEL EMPORIUM
ELON MUSK: These gold miners are buying up all of my shovels, and more arrive on the train every day! What to do? All I have left in the world is this pile of wooden sticks, a hundred steel ingots, and a standing order with the blacksmith!
I really admire the confidence of the people using different profile pictures here than on Twitter. They worked their way up from the mailroom once, they know they can do it again.
July 1, 2023 at 11:08 PM
I really admire the confidence of the people using different profile pictures here than on Twitter. They worked their way up from the mailroom once, they know they can do it again.
Even now, after a year of infrastructure work, BeReal's day roll isn't reliable - I see some posts on my feed today that are definitely yesterday's.
July 1, 2023 at 10:24 PM
Even now, after a year of infrastructure work, BeReal's day roll isn't reliable - I see some posts on my feed today that are definitely yesterday's.
See, this is what I'm talking about - these people can't even conceive of upside here, he's halfway to convincing himself to shut the app down to save on compute costs.
Elon Musk is like those NIMBYs who think it's a problem when their city gets an influx of high-paying jobs.
Elon Musk is like those NIMBYs who think it's a problem when their city gets an influx of high-paying jobs.
July 1, 2023 at 6:18 PM
See, this is what I'm talking about - these people can't even conceive of upside here, he's halfway to convincing himself to shut the app down to save on compute costs.
Elon Musk is like those NIMBYs who think it's a problem when their city gets an influx of high-paying jobs.
Elon Musk is like those NIMBYs who think it's a problem when their city gets an influx of high-paying jobs.
We need some action on here, so let me see if this gets anything going:
This is true, but it's not a Driver Brain thing, because the same problem applies to public transit free-fare advocates too.
This is true, but it's not a Driver Brain thing, because the same problem applies to public transit free-fare advocates too.
July 1, 2023 at 5:26 PM
We need some action on here, so let me see if this gets anything going:
This is true, but it's not a Driver Brain thing, because the same problem applies to public transit free-fare advocates too.
This is true, but it's not a Driver Brain thing, because the same problem applies to public transit free-fare advocates too.
In fact, it's more than monetization - a lot of media and business people didn't seem to realize that Twitter in particular has been badly beaten on usage by Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Elon Musk had to learn from a Community Note that Twitter drives 7% of (I think) US news article impressions.
Which is odd, because it's not 2009, when it was a real open question whether social networks could monetize large userbases enough to justify their valuations using targeted advertising.
We know perfectly well it's possible (Facebook and Instagram), Twitter and Reddit just haven't done it well.
We know perfectly well it's possible (Facebook and Instagram), Twitter and Reddit just haven't done it well.
July 1, 2023 at 5:04 PM
In fact, it's more than monetization - a lot of media and business people didn't seem to realize that Twitter in particular has been badly beaten on usage by Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Elon Musk had to learn from a Community Note that Twitter drives 7% of (I think) US news article impressions.
Seems like the Twitter and Reddit discourse over the last year have focused almost exclusively on costs, and business model shifts - Elon Musk more or less explicitly said "how could Twitter make enough money just from ads, we need a new business model, we have subscriptions now".
July 1, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Seems like the Twitter and Reddit discourse over the last year have focused almost exclusively on costs, and business model shifts - Elon Musk more or less explicitly said "how could Twitter make enough money just from ads, we need a new business model, we have subscriptions now".